Matt Baker & August Nemo 
It Rhymes with Lust 
The first an original graphic novel

The first and original ‘Graphic Novel’, a creation of Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller with the art of Matt Baker and Ray Osrin.’She was greedy, heartless and calculating. She knew what she wanted and was ready to sacrifice anything to get it’, reads in the original subtitle.Hal Weber, onetime crusading journalist, is summoned to Copper City by his old flame Rust after the death of her husband, mining magnate and political heavyweight Arthur ‘Buck’ Masson.As editor of The Express, a newspaper with an anti-Masson stance secretly owned by Rust, Hal is drawn back to her even as he falls for her stepdaughter Audrey.The situation in Copper City soon literally becomes explosive, with Hal having to choose between Rust and Audrey, the bottle and his conscience, safety and the truth.Tacet Comics remasters comics books from the Golden Age of Comic Books and optimize them for reading on modern devices.Check our collection of Golden Age comics for more awesome, page-turning and amazing comic books!

About the author

Matt Baker (December 10, 1921 August 11, 1959) was an American comic book artist and illustrator, best known for drawing early comics heroines such as the costumed crimefighter Phantom Lady, and romance comics. Active in the 1940s and 1950s Golden Age of comic books, he is the first known African-American artist to find success in the comic-book industry. He also penciled St. John Publications’ digest-sized ‘picture novel’ It Rhymes with Lust (1950).Arnold Drake (March 1, 1924 March 12, 2007) was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others.Leslie Waller (April 1, 1923 March 29, 2007) was an American writer.Ray Osrin (October 5, 1928 April 3, 2001) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist. He was most notable for his work in the Golden Age of comic books. Later, he took a position as the editorial cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where his political cartoons appeared daily for more than 30 years.